Agenda item - Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund

1)           That Cabinet delegates authority to the Corporate Director for Homes and Adult Social Care, in consultation with the Cabinet member for Housing and New Homes and the Cabinet member for Net Zero and Environmental Services, to enter into the Grant Agreement with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero for the Warm Homes; Social Housing Fund Wave 3.

2)           That, subject to Warm Homes: Social Housing grant funding being agreed, Cabinet delegates authority to the Corporate Director for Homes and Adult Social Care, in consultation with the Cabinet member for Housing and New Homes, to award a contract, following ‘negotiation without reopening competition to Suppliers’, to E.ON Energy Solutions to deliver the works summarised in this report with a value up to £2.4 million from April 2025 to September 2028.

141.1   Cabinet considered a report that sought approval to enter into a grant agreement with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) pending a successful application to the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund and, subject to this, award a contract to E.ON Energy Solutions to deliver works outlined in the agreement.

141.2   Councillors Rowkins and Sankey contributed to the debate of the report.

141.3   Resolved-

1)             That Cabinet delegates authority to the Corporate Director for Homes and Adult Social Care, in consultation with the Cabinet member for Housing and New Homes and the Cabinet member for Net Zero and Environmental Services, to enter into the Grant Agreement with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero for the Warm Homes; Social Housing Fund Wave 3.

2)             That, subject to Warm Homes: Social Housing grant funding being agreed, Cabinet delegates authority to the Corporate Director for Homes and Adult Social Care, in consultation with the Cabinet member for Housing and New Homes, to award a contract, following ‘negotiation without reopening competition to Suppliers’, to E.ON Energy Solutions to deliver the works summarised in this report with a value up to £2.4 million from April 2025 to September 2028.